# dictionary attack

> technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by trying hundreds or sometimes millions of likely possibilities, such as words in a dictionary

**Wikidata**: [Q599809](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599809)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_attack)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/dictionary-attack


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)